dash ( and the new world order )

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini]

Em Sex, 2006-09-15 às 10:18 +0200, Ante Karamatic escreveu:
> 
> > I know its not "right" for them to expect non-posix from a /bin/sh but
> > it has been there for so long on so many systems its become defacto and
> > there isn't anything wrong with either way, I'm saying we just might
> > want to spend atleaste __one__ BoF on this in November since the "new
> > world order" of upstart and that was the main reason for the switch,
> > then alot of ubuntu deltas can be dropped etc
> 
> ISV are confused why their scripts/programs run on distributionX, but
> not on distributionY (or for one user, but not for the other one on the
> same system). This is not their fault. This is, IMHO, fault of Linux
> distributions not conforming to standards. When we do that, it should be
> easier for them and us.
> 

Bash is the *standard* shell of the GNU system, and it's fully
compatible with POSIX.

Cheers,
Evandro